THERE is no more important responsibility for a government than the delivery of quality health and medical services.
You may remember premier David Crisafulli promising he would reduce the levels of ambulance ramping at our hospitals.
Well, that’s now become another broken promise.
The latest analysis has revealed that ambulance ramping in Queensland has hit a record high under David Crisafulli and LNP health minister Tim Nicholls.
A broken promise, a terrible outcome, and a betrayal of the people of Queensland.
In our local area the results were shocking.
At Logan Hospital, 68.6% of ambulances were forced to wait for more than 30 minutes to transfer their patients.
QEII Hospital was even worse, with 70.6 % of ambulances forced to wait more than half an hour.
Further afield at Ipswich Hospital, the figure was also high, with 67.9% of ambulances waiting more than 30 minutes to transfer patients.
Ramping at the PA Hospital for July 2025 was 56.8.
That compares to a figure of 40.7 percent ramped in October 2024, a substantial jump.
At all of the hospitals in our area ramping is clearly getting worse, not better as David Crisafulli promised.
Elective surgery wait lists are deteriorating as well, with 62,554 Queenslanders currently on the surgery waitlist.
July data revealed the number of patients waiting for surgeries longer than clinically recommended had increased by a staggering 47% compared to the same time last year.
Clearly, the Crisafulli Government is not the government Queenslanders were told they would be electing.
The Crisafulli Government is not a government of delivery.
Instead, it is a government of broken promises and false expectations, an underperforming government that talks a big game and then fails to follow through.
It saddens me to see what is happening, because I know how hard our dedicated health professionals work to look after the community, but they are not getting the support they need from the Crisafulli government.
David Crisafulli promised he would not cut health but all we’ve seen since he became premier is cut after cut to health investment and infrastructure.
Just last week we learnt that funding had been cut for hotel beds that were being used for recovering patients on the Gold Coast.
At a time when we have record ambulance ramping the last thing any sensible government would do is reduce the number of available beds.
You can’t solve ambulance ramping unless you have more beds.
The performance of the Crisafulli LNP government just isn’t good enough, and I will never relent in standing up for the medical and health needs of the people of Logan.
